Anthony Hugget

Vice President Quality Management, Nestlé, Vevey, Switzerland
Dr Anthony Huggett is Head of Quality Management for Nestlé. During his 24 years at Nestlé he has held a variety of positions in the areas of Food Safety and Quality Management in Europe and in Asia, both in Operations and in R&D. Before joining Nestlé, Anthony Huggett, who earned a Ph.D. in Biochemistry & Toxicology from the University of London, UK, worked for 6 years as a research scientist in the area of cancer aetiology at the National Cancer Institute at NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. He began his career in Nestlé in 1990 at the International Research Centre in Lausanne, Switzerland as leader of the Food Safety Group responsible for food safety assessments. In 1998, Dr. Huggett moved to Singapore to take up a regional Quality Management position with responsibility for providing operational support in Asia and Oceania. He returned to Switzerland in 2002 and became Head of Quality Management for Nestlé Nutrition. In 2011, he was appointed as global Head of Quality Management for Nestlé, responsible for quality and food safety management, with strategic and functional leadership for the 8000 Quality and Food Safety professionals in the Nestlé group.